“Just say slavery.”

For the first time in twenty years there are new questions on the citizenship test for immigrants. You can read all 100 questions and answers or test yourself on sample ten. This is harder than I’d thought. I got eight out of ten correct, having wrongly remembered that there are 430 members of the House and that Harding was president during WWI. How did you do?

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Waldo Jaquith (JAKE-with) is an open government technologist who lives near Char­lottes­­ville, VA, USA. more »

8 replies on ““Just say slavery.””

  1. Damn… 1 off on the # of amendments. Kind of an odd question though… isn’t the meaning and content of those amendments more important than how many there are?

    Now I want to see Bill O’Reilly’s answers.

  2. A friend of mine from Argentina, holder of a green card here in the US, is fond of pointing out when a political officer-holder does something (often with impunity) that would be grounds for denial of citizenship–and possibly deportation–were he to do it.

    He typically gets to point this out on order of weekly….

  3. I got eight out of ten, and noticed that one of the answers to question 9 is wrong. Puerto Rico is not a territory of the United States; it is a freely associated Commonwealth and very proud of the distinction which became effective on July 25, 1952. Public Law 600 adopted in 1951 authorized Puerto Rico to have its own constitution, which is what distinguishes it from a territory.

    Takes 6 out of 10 to “pass,” right?

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